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Pathways to conspiracy: The social and linguistic precursors of involvement in Reddit’s conspiracy theory forum

Overview of attention for article published in PLOS ONE, November 2019
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (99th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (98th percentile)

Mentioned by

news
21 news outlets
blogs
3 blogs
twitter
39 tweeters
reddit
4 Redditors

Citations

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43 Dimensions

Readers on

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133 Mendeley
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Title
Pathways to conspiracy: The social and linguistic precursors of involvement in Reddit’s conspiracy theory forum
Published in
PLOS ONE, November 2019
DOI 10.1371/journal.pone.0225098
Pubmed ID
Authors

Colin Klein, Peter Clutton, Adam G. Dunn

Twitter Demographics

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Mendeley readers

The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 133 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.

Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 133 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 17 13%
Researcher 16 12%
Student > Ph. D. Student 16 12%
Student > Bachelor 14 11%
Student > Doctoral Student 9 7%
Other 26 20%
Unknown 35 26%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 25 19%
Social Sciences 21 16%
Computer Science 11 8%
Arts and Humanities 10 8%
Philosophy 5 4%
Other 28 21%
Unknown 33 25%

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 214. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 13 February 2023.
All research outputs
#163,682
of 23,929,753 outputs
Outputs from PLOS ONE
#2,472
of 204,409 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#3,767
of 461,844 outputs
Outputs of similar age from PLOS ONE
#39
of 2,386 outputs
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